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A. J. OROS E. BRIDLE BIT.

No. 425,212. Patented Apr. 8, 1890.

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BRlDLE-BIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,212, dated April 8, 1890.

Application filed December 9, 1889. Serial No. 333,139. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ANDREW J. those, of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bridle-Bits; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters and figures refer to like parts.

Myinvention relates to the construction of bridle-bits, and will be understood from the following description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of my device. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the bit when the parts are separated for the purpose of reversing the position of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the plates reversed. Fig. L is a plan view showing the plates turned up atan angle when drawn upon by the lines, the rings broken off. 7

In detail, the bit consists of two plates 1 and 2, pivoted at p to the smaller plates 3 and =I that is, the long plate 1 is pivoted to the short plate 3, and the long plate 2 is pivoted to the short plate 4;and rings 0' go through holes in the ends of these plates, which are flat and thin, so that the horse cannot get a good grip upon them, as in the case of the ordinary round or corrugated bridle-bit, but the plates will slip between his teeth.

In Fig. 1 the bit is shown as adapted to a very hard-mouthed or unmanageable horse, and in this instance the short plates 3 and 4 lie between the long plates 1 and 2, while when the bit is reversed the long plates 1 and 2 lie between the short plates 3 and 4, and the horse biting upon the short plates 3 and 4 when they are in the position shown in Fig. 1 cannot get the leverage upon them, owing to their short length, that he can when the bit is in the position shown in Fig. 3 that is to say, the bit in the position shown in Fig. 1 can be moved in the horses mouth much more easily than it can when it is in the position shown in Fig. 3and by pulling upon the lines the square pivoted ends of the plates are forced outin the position shown in Fig. 4, and these angles may be increased by a harder pulling upon the lines, so as to bring the sharp corners of the plates against the horses teeth or gums.

My invention therefore consists, first, in making the bars of which the bit is composed of thin plates, instead of round or corrugated bars, and, second, in making the bit reversible, so as to adapt it to the mouths of horses of different degrees of unmanageableness.

I am aware that bits have been made of double bars pivoted together, but these have not been reversible, and, second, they are not made of flat plates, which are less easily gripped by the animals than the round or corrugated bars commonly used.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. Thereversiblebridle-bithereindescribed,

comprising the fiat plates 1 and 2 of greater length, pivoted to the flat plates 3 and 4 of lesser length and connected at each outer end to a ring 0*, substantially as shown and described. 2. A bridle-bit composed of the flat plates 1, pivoted to the flat plate 3 at p, the plate '2, similarly pivoted to the plate 4, rings r, connected .at the outer ends of each plate, the whole adapted to be reversed, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. A bridle-bit composed of double bars formed of thin plates of unequal length, pivoted together, and rings passing through the outer ends of such plates, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 22d day of November, 188.).

ANDREIV J. CROSE.

Witnesses:

G. P. JAcons, E. B. GRIFFITH. 

